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Science 30 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5880, p. 1133
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160201
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Editorial

Education to Protect Humanity

David Hamburg

After millennia of mass exterminations, genocides such as those in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur continue to plague the world. Given today's ready access to lethal weapons and technology-assisted incitements to hatred, the plague is poised to spread. How can we reverse this potential for malignant growth?

David Hamburg is the DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He is working in the field of prevention of mass violence.

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